Patents by Inventor Kenji Mori

Kenji Mori has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • IMAGE QUALITY CONTROL AND ADJUSTMENT APPARATUS, IMAGE QUALITY CONTROL AND ADJUSTMENT METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20170078496
    Abstract: An image quality control and adjustment apparatus includes a management unit and a controller. The management unit manages operation specification information. The controller performs, in a case where an operation that conforms to the operation specification information is performed, an image quality adjustment for an image forming apparatus using a result obtained from the operation, and does not perform, in a case where an operation that does not conform to the operation specification information is performed, an image quality adjustment for the image forming apparatus using a result obtained from the operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuichi Sugimoto, Kenji Mori, Jun Koyatsu
  • Storage system in which connected data is divided
    Patent number: 9575679
    Abstract: For the purpose of suppressing decrease of a deduplication rate in a storage system, a storage system according to the present invention includes: a data buffer; a dividing unit configured to generate divided data by dividing data inputted into the data buffer; and a storage processing unit configured to store the divided data into a storage device while eliminating duplicate storage. The dividing unit is configured to generate the divided data by dividing the data inputted into the data buffer by a preset division standard based on the content of the data and also divide, by the division standard, connected data that residual data being left without being divided by the division standard and continuing data continuing to the residual data and being inputted in the data buffer are connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenji Mori
  • COSMETIC
    Publication number: 20170027827
    Abstract: The inventors have investigated a fluorescent substance being safe and having a high color developing property, and it is one of objects of the present disclosure to obtain an inorganic red fluorescent substance consisting of an element which exerts no bad influence upon human bodies. A cosmetic containing inorganic particles consisting of a compound represented by a general formula: CaxAlyO(2x+3y+4z)/2:Mn4+z wherein 0.1<x<1.05, 11.9<y?12, and 0.0005<z<0.1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Mayu OTA, Hiroshi TSUJITA, Kenji MORI, Keita KOBAYASHI
  • MECANOLUMINESCENT MATERIAL, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MECANOLUMINESCENT MATERIAL, MECANOLUMINESCENT PAINT COMPOSITION, RESIN COMPOSITION, AND MECANOLUMINESCENT ARTICLE
    Publication number: 20170002264
    Abstract: A mechanoluminescent material is obtained by mixing a phosphate compound and europium-activated strontium aluminate particles into slurry; grinding the slurry into ground slurry; and drying the ground slurry, wherein the rate of change calculated from a formula (A?B)/A×100 is 10% or less, where A is the strontium content in the obtained mechanoluminescent material, and B is the strontium content in the mechanoluminescent material after 168 hours of storage in an atmosphere at a temperature of 85° C. and a relative humidity of 85%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Takahiro KAWATAKI, Kenji MORI, Keita KOBAYASHI, Hiroshi NAKAO, Tomonori TOJO
  • IMAGE READING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20170006191
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes an image reading section and a detection section. The image reading section includes at least two detection units, and performs a reading operation on an image. The at least two detection units have respective spectral characteristics which are different from each other. The detection section detects a condition of an irregularity on an image carrier by comparing a detection result of the image read by the image reading section with an output characteristic. The output characteristic is stored in advance and is a color component obtained from a value obtained by the image reading section reading a test image having a region in at least one color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenji MORI
  • CHEMICAL HEAT STORAGE DEVICE
    Publication number: 20160370121
    Abstract: A chemical thermal storage device includes a reactor and an adsorber connected to the reactor via a pipe. The reactor has a stack structure body having a plurality of plate-shaped heat generation parts and a plurality of heat exchange parts alternately stacked. The heat generation part has a thermal storage material that generates heat upon chemical reaction with NH3 and desorbs NH3 upon reception of waste heat, and a metal casing that contains the thermal storage material. The heat exchange part is a passage of exhaust gas and is constituted of a metal fin. The metal casings of the heat generation parts and the heat exchange parts are joined to each other by brazing, welding or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Yukihiro NOGUCHI, Hiroyasu KAWAUCHI, Kenji MORI, Satoshi HARIU, Takanori MURASAKI
  • CHEMICAL HEAT STORAGE DEVICE
    Publication number: 20160369675
    Abstract: A chemical heat storage device includes a reactor disposed around an oxidizing catalyst and containing MgCl2 which chemically reacts with NH3 to generate heat, a storage connected to the reactor through a pipe to store NH3, an on-off valve disposed in the pipe, a temperature sensor detecting the temperature of the exhaust gas passing through the oxidizing catalyst, and a controller controlling the on-off valve based on the detected value of the temperature sensor. The controller controls the on-off valve such that the on-off valve unconditionally opens if the temperature of the exhaust gas is greater than a heat generating start temperature TL and is equal to or less than a heat generating end guide temperature TQ, and the on-off valve unconditionally opens if the temperature of the exhaust gas is greater than a regenerating temperature TH.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Kenji MORI, Satoshi HARIU, Takafumi YAMASAKI
  • Motor Control Device and Electric Power-Steering Device and Vehicle Using Said Motor Control Device
    Publication number: 20160339949
    Abstract: A motor controller includes: a main motor drive circuit configured to control driving of a multi-phase electric motor; a backup motor drive circuit configured to control driving of the multi-phase electric motor, when an abnormality occurs at the main motor drive circuit; and an abnormality diagnosis unit configured to diagnose the abnormality of the main and backup motor drive circuits. In a normal drive state, only the main motor drive circuit is configured to drive the multi-phase electric motor, and in a backup drive state, when the abnormality diagnosis unit diagnoses that the abnormality occurs at the main motor drive circuit as a diagnoses result, a motor current of a phase output unit where the abnormality occurs is cut off, and the phase output unit that has been cut off is replaced with another phase output unit of a same phase in the backup motor drive circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Kenji MORI, Takeshi SENBA, Shigeo SHINOHARA
  • CHEMICAL THERMAL STORAGE DEVICE
    Publication number: 20160334172
    Abstract: A chemical thermal storage device includes a reactor that is disposed around a heat exchanger and contains a thermal storage material that generates heat upon chemical reaction with NH3 and desorbs NH3 upon reception of waste heat, an adsorber containing an adsorption material capable of retention and desorption of NH3 through physical adsorption, a solenoid valve that is provided between the reactor and the adsorber and opens and closes a flow channel between both, and a safety valve that is provided in parallel to the solenoid valve between the reactor and the adsorber and mechanically opens when a pressure in the reactor reaches a preset valve-opening setting pressure. The safety valve has a check valve function to shut off a flow of NH3 from the adsorber to the reactor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Yukihiro NOGUCHI, Hiroyasu KAWAUCHI, Takanori MURASAKI, Kenji MORI, Yasushi SATAKE, Satoshi HARIU, Takafumi YAMASAKI, Satoshi UMEMURA
  • Carbamate glycolipid and use thereof
    Patent number: 9493497
    Abstract: The invention provides a compound effective as an antitumor active agent or vaccine adjuvant and an intermediate useful for the synthesis of the compound, as well as production methods thereof, and a medicament containing the novel compound. The compound is a carbamate glycolipid represented by the formula (I) wherein each symbol is as defined herein. The invention also provides a dendritic cell pulsed with the glycolipid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: RIKEN
    Inventors: Takuya Tashiro, Kenji Mori, Masao Shiozaki, Masaru Taniguchi, Hiroshi Watarai
  • Motor Control Device, Electric Power Steering Device Using Same, and Vehicle
    Publication number: 20160325777
    Abstract: The motor control device includes plural motor current blocking units that, in blocking operation, individually block energization between plural motor driving circuits and multi-phase motor windings of a multi-phase electric motor and an abnormality detecting unit that detects a short-circuit failure of the motor current blocking units. The abnormality detecting unit causes one or more motor current blocking units of the plural motor current blocking units to perform a blocking operation during energization between the plural motor driving circuits and the multi-phase electric motor, and, during the blocking operation, detects a short-circuit failure of the motor current blocking units caused to perform the blocking operation based on current values of currents flowing to the plural motor driving circuits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventor: Kenji MORI
  • Information processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium
    Patent number: 9473660
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a determination unit and an adjustment unit. The determination unit determines a rating item for which a degree of interest of a user is high among plural rating items set for an image to be formed. The adjustment unit sets a standard for the rating item determined by the determination unit among the plural rating items and performs an adjustment process such that the standard is satisfied, the rating item being the rating item for which the degree of interest of the user is high.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenji Mori
  • Hydroxylated KRN7000 analogue and use thereof
    Patent number: 9464105
    Abstract: The invention provides a compound represented by the formula (I) wherein R1 is a hydrogen atom or a hydroxyl group; two R2 are the same or different and each is a hydrogen atom or a hydroxyl group; R3 is a hydrocarbon group having 8-14 carbon atoms, which optionally has substituent(s); and R4 is a hydrocarbon group having 18-24 carbon atoms, which optionally has substituent(s), or a salt thereof. The invention also provides a method of treating an autoimmune disease or suppressing immunity by administering the aforementioned compound or a salt thereof to a patient in need thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: RIKEN
    Inventors: Masao Shiozaki, Takuya Tashiro, Kenji Mori, Tomokuni Shigeura, Hiroshi Watarai, Masaru Taniguchi
  • DETERMINATION DEVICE, CORRECTION DEVICE, OUTPUT DEVICE, AND DETERMINATION METHOD
    Publication number: 20160248934
    Abstract: A determination device includes an acquisition unit that acquires an output characteristic representing a relationship between a gradation value corrected by a correction unit in accordance with a predetermined correction characteristic and a measured value of a density of a toner image output by an output device for the gradation value; an estimation unit that estimates a density of a toner image output by the output device for a predetermined reference gradation value when the reference gradation value is not within a range of the corrected gradation value, the estimation being performed based on the output characteristic acquired by the acquisition unit; and a determination unit that determines whether or not the correction characteristic needs to be changed by comparing the density estimated by the estimation unit with a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Shuichi SUGIMOTO, Kenji MORI
  • Motor Controller, Electric Power Steering Device Using the Motor Controller, and Vehicle Using the Motor Controller
    Publication number: 20160200355
    Abstract: A motor controller, an electric power steering device using the motor controller, and a vehicle using the motor controller are provided. The motor controller includes plural hardware sets configured to operate in a normal state and to output a motor current, a control operation device configured to control the plurality of hardware sets commonly, an electric motor configured to operate with motor current output from each of the plurality of hardware sets, and an abnormality diagnosis unit configured to diagnose an abnormality of each of the plurality of hardware sets. In the control device, when there is an abnormal hardware set that has been diagnosed by the abnormality diagnosis unit, the control operation device stops an operation of the abnormal hardware set that has been diagnosed, and continues driving of the electric motor with a normal hardware set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventors: Kenji MORI, Kotaro TAGAMI, Hiroki SUGAWARA, Shigeo SHINOHARA, Takaaki SEKINE, Takeshi SENBA, Shuji ENDO
  • IMAGE INFORMATION PROVISION DEVICE, IMAGE INFORMATION PROVISION SYSTEM, AND IMAGE INFORMATION PROVISION METHOD
    Publication number: 20160173940
    Abstract: An image information provision device as an information terminal, for providing information relating to an image, the image information provision device including: a control section for specifying, when a predetermined object is selected on a screen in a state, in which an image of the predetermined object having an outer surface, onto which a plurality of display information pieces are added, is displayed on a display section, a display information piece that presents in a region that matches a selected position in the selection among the plurality of display information pieces added to the selected predetermined object, and outputting at least one of the specified display information piece or link information for link to the specified display information piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki KAWAMOTO, Masato ENDO, Kenji MORI, Ryota OSUMI, Ryuta TERASHIMA
  • ROUND HOLE MACHINING METHOD AND ROUND HOLE MACHINING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20160167138
    Abstract: A round hole machining method and a round-hole machining device in which machining can be accurately performed regardless of a residual stress caused by casting. An out-of-round hole machining device, which carries out inner diameter machining for a bore in a cast cylinder block includes the following: a stress deformation amount correspondence table that stores, for each portion of the cylinder block, a stress deformation amount based on stress that resides in the cylinder block during casting; a machining shape prediction section that predicts the machining shape on the basis of the stress deformation amount read from the stress deformation amount correspondence table; and a motor control unit that reverses the predicted machining shape with respect to a target shape and carries out reverse machining on a workpiece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Fukumitsu, Kenji Mori, Akihiro Nemoto, Takuro Kidani
  • ROUND HOLE MACHINING METHOD AND ROUND-HOLE MACHINING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20160170401
    Abstract: A round hole machining method and a round-hole machining device in which machining can be accurately performed regardless of the wear of an edge tool. A non-round hole machining device includes: a machining load data acquisition section for obtaining machining load data corresponding to a machining load acting on the cutting edge of a cutting tool when boring a bore in a cylinder block; a machined shape prediction section for predicting a machined shape of the workpiece by utilizing the obtained machining load data and elastic deformation amounts at respective positions on the workpiece; and a motor control section for machining the workpiece so as to form an inverted shape, that is, a shape formed by inverting the predicted machined shape with respect to a target shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Mori, Jin Fukumitsu, Akihiro Nemoto, Takuro Kidani
  • Motor Control Apparatus, Electric Power Steering Apparatus and Vehicle Using the Same
    Publication number: 20160134212
    Abstract: A motor control apparatus includes a motor current shutoff unit inserted between a multi-phase inverter circuit and a multi-phase electric motor to shut off a current for each of plural phases, the inverter circuit including an arm for each of the plural phases, a redundant arm unit including one or more arms, a connection selecting unit selecting which one of windings of the electric motor is to be connected to each of the one or more arms of the redundant arm unit, an abnormal arm detection unit detecting an abnormality in each of the plural phases of the inverter circuit, and an abnormality control unit shutting off connection between an abnormal arm and the motor when the abnormal arm detection unit detects the abnormal arm, and connecting the one or more arms of the redundant arm unit to a winding of the motor shut off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Yusuke Kikuchi, Atsushi Horikoshi, Satoshi Ozaki, Yoshihiro Aosaki, Takeshi Senba, Hisayoshi Koiwai, Shigeo Shinohara, Kenji Mori, Masahiro Okutani, Takaaki Sekine
  • CHEMICAL HEAT STORAGE DEVICE
    Publication number: 20160131439
    Abstract: A chemical heat storage device that heats a heating target provided in an exhaust pipe 3 from an outer periphery of the heating target, comprising a reactor 9A that contains reaction materials 9a that generate heat by chemical reaction with a reaction medium, an adsorber that adsorbs the reaction medium with an adsorbent to store the reaction medium, and branch pipes 11a and 11b that connect the adsorber and the reactor 9A. The reactor 9A is provided around an outer peripheral surface of a portion at which the heating target is provided in the piping, and includes a plurality of inlet-outlets 9c and 9d through which the reaction medium is fed. The plurality of inlet-outlets 9c and 9d are arranged so as to be at equal intervals in a circumferential direction of the reactor 9A without being positioned in a lower portion of the reactor 9A.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Hideaki SUZUKI, Kenji MORI